The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 11, 1930, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, OCT. 11, 1930. ~PALACE~— | STARTING SU Talking Reporter WILLIAM HAINES —in— “SPEEDWAY” A Fast Stepping Race Track Yarn That Will Lift You Out of Your Seat HALLOWE’EN—An All Talking Comedy TONIGHT—LAST TIMES MIDNIGHT DADDIES LAUREL and HARDY All Comedy Show 10—2 .- . s s s Chaplin, Coleman, Menjou, Gilbert, and Hoot | Gibson All Have Found Matrimony a i Costly Experiment ) Ronarp CoemaN HooT HOLLYWOOD, Cal—The “Ali- mony Blues” has become Holly- wood’s matrimonial theme song and ft~1s being moaned by some of the film center's most famous actors and directors whose matrimonial domestic bliss cannot abide in one ships have foundered. —>50—Loges 75 cents —50—Loges | Ex-Wives of Film“Idols’ Win Alimony Fortunes - GipsoN Wi1aM S HART. NDAY Movietone Act > cents toger Wolfe Kahn, son of the toted international banker, Otto 1. Kahn, was at the controls of this plane during tests by the smart lawyers who excel at drawing up alimony settlements are getting wealthier by the minute. Charlie Chaplin is the leader of the alimony parade. Few men have found married life shorter, less satisfactory and more costly. He paid $107,500 to close the books of | his marriage to Mildred Harris. And he has just finished paying $625,000 Lita Grey Chaplin. But he isn't |really through with it yet. For two more years he must pay his ex-wife one thousand dollars a month. And then after he has es- tablished a trust fund of $200,000 the incident will be closed and Charlie will have closed accounts for married life of less than two years' duration. Jack Pays with Jack John Gilbert has had to dig up the most important sum of $156.000 for alimony to Leatrice Joy, and he must also pay $2600 a year until their child reaches the age of eighteen. Miss Joy has not married, but Gilbert is now married to Ina Claire, who is now in New York, while Gilbert remaius in Hollywood. That wild man of the virile West, Willlam S. Hart, has com- pleted his $200,000 alimony pay- ment to his former wife, Winifred Westover. And the ‘suave Ado'phe Menjou has recently finished his last weekly payment of $550 to his first wife, and so completed a $67,000 alimony hill. Menjou further gave his wife a cash payment of $25000 and a $75,000 home. When the negotia- tions were settled, Adolphe's iaw- Out on the coast it isn't the woman who pays and pays. The paying is done by the men whose wives have managed to persuade a sympathetic court that genius and been left virtually penniless Bernard P. Fineman, thi2 film producer, married Evelyn Brent, the actress, in November, 1922 were divorced in 1927 after having been separated for over two years. Andpineman agreed to pay his wife home, be it ever so palatial. . The Child Who Sees ‘ Learns Easily I-will be glad tg examine carefully the eyes of your child and give you my advice about glases. P o = Dr. R. E. Southwell p 0 Optometrist—Optician Room 17, Valentine Building Evenings by Appointment Phone 484, $200 weekly for a period of five years. In addition he insured his ;me for a large sum in Miss Brent's |favor and also gave her Londs and |stocks as well as some jewelry. Handsome Ronnie, Tco | Ronald Colman may seem tLe romantic ideal of a world of movie fans, but to his wife, Thelma, h2 is just another alimony payer. The amount was not made public, al- |though it is known that some years ago, she suddenly appeared in Hol- lywood, having come from Europe, and filed a suit demanding $1,000 |a month and one-half of the com- munity property. | Hoot Gibson, husband of pretiy |Sally Elers, is paying his first do- ! mestic adventure $150 a week un- til he has made a $30,000 total. His | daughter, Lois; 1s also named bene- ficiary of $100,000 life insurance | policy. Another who has paid a 1$30,000 alimony account is Al San- tell, the director. This sum is in addition to the $20,000 Santell gave her when they went their separate ways, tWo years ago. | The busiest men in Hollywood are the ex-husbands who must hustle 'to pay their alimony bills, if they ldon't want to hold up a picture because of a jail sentence. Cullen |Landis is one of the alimony pay- ers who has seen the inside of a jall. His arrears in the $350 week- ly payment he agreed to pay at \the fime of his divorce have had |him in and out of jail many times [smce 1927. Al St. John is another |who has served a.jail sentence be- |cause of non-payment. No wonder {women call Hollywood an earthly ’pnmdise, e — RAMSEY RETURNS Neal Ramsey returned this week from a trip to the States and Canada and will carry on his pro- fesslonal trade as barber at the PIONEER BARBER SHOP, W. A. Sherman, Prop. —adv. cash alimony to his second wife,| yers declared that their client had | They ! of installing ckup device routes to I on regular airn I EDITOR WHITES SON NOMIN | EMPORIA, Kas. — “Young Bill" White, 30 years old and not so long out of Harvard, has set a pre- cedent for the William Allen White | family by launching a political ca- reer. And he was successful in his first |start despite the fact nothing fav-| orable to his candidacy appeared in /the Emporia Gazette, his father's famous newspaper, of which he is associate editor. “Young Bill” defeated W. A Gladfelter, Kansas master farmer | and president of the Lyons County Farm Bureau, in the race for nom- !ination as state representative from | !the east side of Lyons county -on | the Republican ticket. In November he will be opposed at the polls by T. R. Evans, Demo- cratic candidate. Lyons county is| strongly Republican. | Six years ago “Young Bill's" fis |ther was a candidate for governor lon an independent ticket in the |general election. | William Allen White did not con- |template a political career, how- lever, and he didn't want the job, |his candidacy being merely a pro- |test against the Ku Klux Klan, jwhich then was strong in Kansas He was beaten by Ben S. Paulen of | Fredonia. ! ‘When *“Young BIill” announced {his campaign he hoped he would be unopposed. When opposition de- veloped, however, he made a spir- ited fight for the nomination, part of which was a house to house can- vass. New Aerial Mail Pick-up Device Tested facilitate faster delivery of mail. Photo shows a success- ful pickup. Note the dangling mailbag after the contact. WINS ATION “ON HIS OWN” F . b4 W.L.WHITE Young White—who signs his let- ters W. L. White—attended high school in 1918. student at the University of Kan- sas for one year and then went to Harvard, where he received an A.| B.' degree. He has held nearly every job on the Gazette from carrierboy on up, and January 1, 1928, became asso- ciate editor. He is unmarried. SEATTLE SEEKS TRYOUTS FOR 1932 OLYMPIC MEET | SEATTLE, Oct. 11.—8eattle will seek the officlal tryouts for the 1932 Olympic track and field meet. Hec Edmundson, University of Washington coach, has started ae- tion to have Beattle designated by the Olympic committee as the scene for the great event. The 1982 Olympic games will be held in Los Angeles but the trials are expected to be allotted to some other city. “Seattle is ideally located to hold| the trials,” said Edmundson. “We have' the facilities to put' on the meet; we have the weather| to offer that would allow athle | train and compete without forced to experience the | heat that comes in some other sec- tions of the country.” .- FLORIDA PLANS WINTER PAN-AMERICAN NET MEET MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Oct. 11— Net stars of the Americas will com- pete in this resort city next w ter if plans for a Pan-American tennis tournament are approved by he United States Lawn Tennis as- sociation. The Pan-American to would take the place of the Florida meet, which hitherto has drawn ranking stars of the U d States in competition with Cuban players. J. B. Lemon, recreation or for Miami Beach, hopes to enroll stars from Cuba, Mexico and other Latin-American countries for the tournament planned the week of February 24. — e TRAILER CARRIES GLIDER FOR YOUTHS’ SALES TRIPS YELLOW SPRINGS, Oct. 11— Two college students are decl dividends on the country’s enthusiasm. Glenn D, Argetsinger and Si Fisher, graduates of Antioch Col- lefe, hitched a glider to their car and started a town-to-town canvass der to form clubs and sell the motor- less craft. They constructed a special trailer to carry the detached wings of their| ship with the fuselage slipped in between. The glider may be dis- mounted and rigged for flight in 45 minutes. " At each town they make demon- tration flights, towing the glider glto the air by means of the car. en they organize a club and place their orders. COLISEUM LAST TIME TONIGHT BIG SHOW New Thrills! New Throbs! Where there’s a girl— there’s a way. See and hear Young America’s Boy-Friend in this thrill- throb hit. CHARLES (BUDDY) ROGERS - Half Way to Heaven JEAN ARTHUR G Garamount Qicture. the ! Emporia schools, graduating from | He was a —’ COLISEUM PRESENTS Big Special Show INDAY AND MONDAY “Don’t you know that the early bird always catches the “What worm?” “Who cares about that?” Laughs galore! Pathos! Tense drama! See and hear—the marvelous new song hits—“Shoo, 8hoo, Boogie Boo,” “Do I Know What I'm Doing?” “HOME AGAIN!” BACK on the roar pile. And back to entertain you with more laughs than ever. The famous stage and radio stars in a brilliant revue comedy-drama. Girls, gayety, romance! An ALL-TALKING Smash Hit. THE TWO BLACK CROWS MORAN 9 MACK %5 "Why Bring That Up ?” 3 v ith 5 EVELYN BRENT - " HARNRY ‘GREEN _ a4 Guramount QPicture/ 'l VITAPHONE ACTS—PARAMOUNT ACTS—and NEWS MOST COMPLETE COLLECTION OF Christmas Greeting Cards WE HAVE EVER SHOWN IS NOW READY We suggest you make your selection early. 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